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Chief Newton Agbofodo, the embattled community head of Ekpan, Uvwie Council Area of Delta State, linked to series of killings within Ekpan and its environs, including the murder of one Edigbe Ikpesa sometime in October 2012, has been…

For five consecutive years, three Nigerian states took an unmistakable lead in university admissions into courses leading to the award of degrees in Engineering, a PREMIUM TIMES analysis shows. The states are Oyo,…

The federal government may bow to pressure as it has started reviewing the requests by the States and private sector for an extension of the tax amnesty programme, the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS). Minister…

THE Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Akanbi, Telu I, stoked the fire of controversy yesterday by adopting the title of an Emir. He officially declared himself the Emir of Yorubaland. Speaking at the installation and the turbaning…

Ahead of Easter celebrations, patronage of local rice has shot up in Enugu as dealers make brisk business, A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that local rice business had been booming since the beginning of the Holy Week. Mr…

In a shocking twist of event.. BamBam has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija House… This is beyond shocking, as no one saw this coming. Last week, Ebuka announced that a special guest was coming into the house, after their…

Two persons were on Saturday confirmed dead, after a storey building collapsed in Lagos. The building situated at No. 9 Abeje Street Markaz, Agege Local Government Area, was gathered to have been marked for distressed by the Lagos…

The Presidency on Saturday said the recent call made by a former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), that Nigerians should not rely on security agencies but defend themselves in the face of killings across the…

Two pupils of a private school, identified as Bright Future Academy, lost their lives during a heavy downpour while returning from school on Thursday around 4:30 pm at Omikunle area of Ijaiye, Lagos State on Thursday. According to…

In what seems to be an extreme case of neurofibromatosis, a lady has been covered with painful tumours covering her entire face, with three giant growths swamping her right leg. 38-year-old Charmaine Sahadeo, has always had the…

Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has temporarily moved the seat of administration of the state from Maiduguri, the capital, to Bama, to prepare the ground for the relocation of about a million people displaced at the peak of…

A 24 years old student has reportedly died after consuming a combination of dangerous drugs and alcohol. According to a Twitter user, Imperator Duduosa/@ipinnusamuel, the young man had consumed “an unknown quantity of liquor, codeine…

Tragedy struck on Sunday 25th March, 2018, at Eyosio – Osung Village in Udung Uko local government area of Akwa Ibom state, as it was gathered that a suspect whose name was not given reportedly killed his uncle identified as Chief Joshua…

According to reports, A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband while he was fast asleep following an accusation of infidelity. The woman was said to have stabbed her husband to death in his sleep for having a baby with…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three suicide bombers were killed at Muna area of Maiduguri, Borno state, on Friday. Four powerful explosions rocked the ancient city between 9pm and 9:30 pm, sending terrifying…

Some of the special anti-corruption courts designated to handle exclusively corruption and other financial crime cases have started functioning, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The Corruption Financial Crimes Cases Trials Monitoring…

Tunde Kamal, a graduate of economics from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, will soon shut down his nine-year-old poultry farm in Mowe, Ogun State. After battling many losses in the past four years, the 43-year-old…

In a bid to build local capacity in waste management, Visionscape Sanitation says it has registered and inducted 350 scavengers into its operations. The company stated this in a statement while disclosing that it had led reputable…

THREE persons including a young man from Edo State based in Napoli, Italy have reportedly died as a result of the curse placed on human traffickers in Edo State by the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare 11.The victim in Italy, (names withheld),…

A military patrol team from the 20 Mechanised Battalion, Serti, operating in Mambilla, Taraba State, on Friday paraded six suspected cattle rustlers nabbed while sharing cow meat in Nyogor forest. According to Lt. Col. Sani Adamu,…

PIMPS and influential ladies who traffic girls from Edo State to Europe, America and other parts of the world, otherwise known as madams, are now said to be jittery about the curse placed recently by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II on…

The Taraba State Police Command, Jalingo, has recovered a total of fifty six riffles and three hundred live ammunitions. The arms were voluntarily surrendered and seven suspects, from whom some of the prohibited firearms were…

A suspected homosexual identified as Daniel, was apprehended just after he tried penetrating a boy from behind in Benin area of Edo State. According to online sources, the suspected homosexual was beaten mercilessly and stripped…

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has threatened to take the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to court for including his name in the alleged list of looters…